Changing Poverty Conference

Papers presented at this working conference organized by IRP, with financial support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be summarized in the Fall 2009 issue of Focus. Revised papers are to be published as a volume in fall 2009, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, co-edited by Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, and available from the Russell Sage Foundation.

Changing Poverty, Changing Policies continues the seminal book series on poverty policy and research that includes three earlier volumes, which have tracked poverty and poverty policy from the 1960s on: Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't (1986); Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change (1994); and Understanding Poverty (2001); and are available from Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Abstracts of the papers presented at the conference are available on the IRP Discussion Paper page; the full text of the book introduction and of two conference papers that differ from the book chapters (“Immigration and Poverty in the United States” by Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky, and “Trends in Income Support” by Robert Moffitt, John Karl Scholz, and Benjamin Cowan), are available on this Web site, and linked in the agenda below.

Agenda